On 2023-12-26 at 17:33, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 04:49:13PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>> -- >> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and >> ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can >> be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" >> - > > Sounds like a project manager imposing random requirements :) You want to talk about random (or not so much) requirements found in Heinlein? >>> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an >>> invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a >>> sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the >>> dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve >>> equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a >>> computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. >>> Specialization is for insects. I can probably do... somewhere in the range from four to ten of those, depending on one's definitions. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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